Re: The history of the Linux OS

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:40:43 +0300 (MSK)


25-Nov-98 22:04 you wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>> > This is a question that's been bugging me for a while. What's the EARLIEST
>> > kernel that will still work with all the wonderful stuff that we have
>> > including glibc2? :)
>>
>> Since your glibc2 is an ELF binary, 0.01 won't work for sure.

> I wouldn't do that if you care your data. Filesystems (expecially ext2)
> changed a lot since the epoch so you may well end up with trashed
> partitions. Don't experiment with kernels on your HDs. Use floppy but
> don't try to mount partitions.

Especially since Linux 1.0 (and early) dislike IDE drives > 512Mb :-))

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